That's where your wrong. **** is a slang name for vagina, Brit isn't another name for Paki now is it? Just like 7 isn't another way of expressing the number five.Quote:
Originally Posted by BDunnell
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That's where your wrong. **** is a slang name for vagina, Brit isn't another name for Paki now is it? Just like 7 isn't another way of expressing the number five.Quote:
Originally Posted by BDunnell
Now you're really being, with respect, stupid. This isn't mindless 'political correctness' at all. We are talking about a term that is highly offensive - beyond the pale to most. What is your problem with not using it on that basis?Quote:
Originally Posted by Daniel
I presume you are deliberately misunderstanding me for some sort of effect. I am using examples of words that are offensive and words that aren't. There is a distinction.Quote:
Originally Posted by Daniel
I never said I was going to use it here for petes sake! All I said was that here we've got a term whose origins aren't shady like for instance the word nigger and yes it was misused in the past but the origins aren't nasty and all they did was add two syllables the word used by normal people to describe someone from Pakistan and in a sense the word Paki was in a sense glorified and held up as a term for thick ****s to use against people from Pakistan or if they're particularly stupid people from India, Bangladesh and Afghanistan.Quote:
Originally Posted by BDunnell
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Originally Posted by BeansBeansBeans
Mark, can you put Intellectual Powerhouse under Daniel's name please? :D
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My Brit/Paki question was just highlighting a discrepancy between the two, which are just shorted versions of a country name. However, I do understand, that Paki is highly offensive, and Brit isn't. But this raises two questions - 1) What if non-British people were to start using the term Brit offensively? 2) What if the word Brit was followed by words like "scum"?
Does that change anything?
Also, regards to "Chinky" - I don't actually use it, because I don't like Chinese (food!) :D However, I don't see an issue with saying harmlessly "Anybody fancy a Chinky?" between friends, obviously as long as it is referring to the choice of takeaway!
I'd probably agree with whoever said it. There a lot of people in this nation who fit the word fairly well, they usually go round spouting crap about immigrants and saying "make Britain Great again"Quote:
Originally Posted by Bezza
Edit: Loving how yet another thread has decsended into an argument about racism, Rallyforum is nothing if not predictable :laugh:
In Ireland many use the term Brit as a term of hate... Brits Out was not a polite request for the British influence to end... it was a war cry and often backed up with Violence... the fact in Britain they also refer to themselves as Brits is a separate thing...
To my mind Paki is a way for ignorant people to categorise a group of people (usually geographically incorrectly) and only used when being abusive or disparaging to that group... language is forever evolving and expanding, historically some words become abusive and unacceptable...
when that happens it is time to stop using them, there is no merit is defending them further.
One of the differences between Brit and Paki is that Paki is used as an insult towards all Asians, where as Brit is distinct to Britons. To answer your question though, if I was referred to as Brit Scum or White Scum by a group of non-whites, I would consider that equally bad.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bezza
As for the chinky thing, I know that not everyone who uses it means harm, but I also know that many chinese people find it insulting, so I'd prefer to use the phrase 'going for a Chinese'.
They can be "quite" all of those things you mentioned, whereas I am "very" of all those things you mentioned :DQuote:
Originally Posted by BDunnell
Very well put.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cooper_S